Today’s Topic: How has blogging and reviewing changed your reading habits? Do you read a genre now that you wouldn’t have tried prior? Or have you been turned off by a genre you used to love?
Blogging/reviewing hasn’t changed my habits that much. I’ve always been an eclectic reader which I why I named this blog Overflowing Bookshelves: my shelves are full of all different genres. I loved reading before I started reviewing and I still love it now. I love falling into a book and not coming up for air until the end. Reading is what keeps me going during the day and I love the fact that I’ve “meet” so many people through the blogging sphere.
The only thing that reviewing has changed is the fact that I will DNF a book. I used to fight through and read every book from cover to cover but now I’ve realized I don’t have the time to waste on books that I know I won’t like. Reviewing has forced me to read more and a byproduct of that is that I pick up on tropes really easily now. YA love triangles and insta-love have turned me off and have been the cause of me DNFing a book. Ultimately, I realized that forcing myself to finish a book isn’t helping anyone and can lead me to stop reading for fear that I’ll have to read a book I won’t like. Not anymore. Reading is pleasure for me and that’s how it will stay.
What about you? How have your reading habits changed because of blogging?
I’m trying not to let blogging change my reading habits. So far the biggest change is that I’m influenced more by what others bloggers are reading. But I’m trying to cut back on that, because sometimes, it’s more the most marketed books. Other than that, I’m an eclectic reader like you, and that hasn’t changed much.
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